xerula

Only just noticed your reply. Thanks for the link, I enjoyed the art. :)

If you don't want to build your own generator, random.org provides a service like the ANU Quantum Random Number Server, i.e. provision of unique sets of true random numbers by http request, but generated from atmospheric noise. There's a convenience R package "random" I often use for this purpose. The articles on the website are quite edifying regarding the art and science of random numbers generally. Here's a link to the interface documentation: http://www.random.org/clients/http/

The low resolution and lack of pressure sensitivity is frustrating. It feels like I'm drawing with a chalk stick. We can zoom into the image to add detail, but lose sight of the overall structure.

However, as an artist, there is sometimes something to be gained from embracing the confines of a particular medium and learning to work within them. And there are serious artists working with the ipad, e.g. David Hockney:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/8066839/...

Even as a fledgling Python coder, I found this distinctly unenlightening. But, as a biologist, the part that really bugged me were the functions that regard yeast as invertebrate animals.